Size of a Solitary Confinement Cell

During Tuesday's Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on solitary confinement in U.S. prisons, Sen. Al Franken asked Charles Samuel, the director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons about the size of a cell. Here's the exchange as it happened.

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